But the wise answered, saying, Not so; lest there be not enough for us and you: but go ye rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves.
Ver. 9. Lest there be not enough, &c.] The best have nought to spare, whatever Papists fancy of the church treasury. The righteous is scarcely saved; at death he finds all he could do little enough; though he began early, and bestirred himself to his utmost, hard and scarce gets he to heaven, though he hath instantly served God day and night, Acts 26:7, with a kind of extension and vehemency (εν εκτενεια).
But go ye rather to them that sell] Salsa est derisio non cohortatio, like that, Isaiah 47:13. As if God should say to Papists, Go to your indulgencers, pardon mongers, annealers; a or to carnal gospellers, Go to your parasitical preachers, that have soothed you up in your sins (and ye loved to have it so), or at the best, have shot off a few pop guns only against gross sins, and licked you whole again presently with, I hope better things of you.
a To burn in colours upon glass, earthenware, or metal, to enamel by encaustic process. ŒD